CCB is participating in the Career Actions Ministry of the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church. CCB member Kris Morgan, a professional in matching job seekers and jobs, is a board member of CAM

If you are looking for a job or have a job of any sort to offer, please go to CAM and list it.

UCC Called a "Progressive Pacesetter"

The magazine Christian Century looks at the denomination's liberal credentials. Read the full story here.

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Celebrate the Spirit of Renewal with us this Easter!

Easter Sunday - April 5, 10:30 a.m.Celebration with Sanctuary and Youth Choirs. Children will hunt Easter eggs on the lawn, and a bagel breakfast will follow.

Maundy Thursday - April 2, 7:30 p.m.A dramatic and moving Tenebrae service in Scripture - and music by the Sanctuary Choir.

Palm Sunday - March 29, 10:30 a.m.Worship celebration with communion and Sanctuary Choir. Chrildren will dye Easter eggs on the veranda after church.

Welcome to Our Church Family!

Wherever you are on life's journey, you are welcome here!

We invite you to come worship with us and see how we do church. You'll find a pastor who doesn't stay put in the pulpit, but likes to preach from the aisle.

You'll find people who love to sing and do so with gusto, accompanied by guitar or piano, or a pipe organ built and tended by a member of our congregation. You'll find a special time for children that includes a ringing of bells, so we can listen to God in the silence that follows. You'll find flowers and beauty in our historic building.

In our church, you will find ideas to stimulate your thinking and surprising new understandings that can come from reaching deep into the history and mystery of the scriptures.

We are an Open and Affirming Congregaton of the United Church of Christ. For information on the United Church of Christ, click the links below.

When I first read Genesis Chapter 1, I was learninggeneral physics in university. I learned Maxwell’sequation as a tool to describe the motion of light. Asyou may know, the light is considered both as aparticle and a wave.

As I learned more about biologyand chemistry, I realized that science is just a smallway to understand this immense universe. The more Ilearned about general relativity, string theory and cosmology, I noticed thatall these theories are based on hypotheses andmathematical equations to justify their assumptions.

But when I learned about Gödel’s incompletenesstheorem, I finally realized that our mathematical logic itself is incomplete and depends on the choice of axioms. . . .

We use the current axioms inmathematics because it just explains things better aboutuniverse without knowing that these axioms are absolutely true ornot. We are able to fly airplanes, build bridges and launch rockets into the space using currentmathematical logic and technology. It does not meanthat our logic is perfect; rather it means that ourchoice of axioms somehow explains how things work inthe universe.

After the attempt to explain the originof the universe, physicists used string theory,membrane theory and quantum theory to explainthe microscopic world which is mainly governed byelectro-magnetic force, and the gigantic universe whichis mainly governed by gravity. But they know none ofthese theories completely describe the universe. . . .

To be honest with you, physicists cannot even define“time” properly. Mathematicians use their limited logicto prove theorems. Every scientist knows his or her limits. Imay say that the science is a human effort to find outthe secrets in universe hidden by God.

God is the infinite dimensional being, that’s why tohim, one day could be thousand years; a million yearscould be a moment. He sees the beginning and the endof the universe at the same time. We cannot prove the existence of God, since he exists above our logic,but his existence becomes evident to us through theheavenly manifestation of his love in the midst of ourdaily life. His way surpasses our limits and knowledge but the glimpse ofhis existential mystery is captured through our tinyscience.

That is why I am a humble mathematician who istrying to discover the splendor of his beauty hidden in our lives and universe.

If science is a tool to understand the universe, createdby God, faith is a way to understand ourselves created inhis image, in relation to God. Without science, I will not be able to understand his omnipotence, and without faith, I willnever understand who I am and what my life is about.

At this very moment, and forever,I live as a mathematical scientist who has a faith inGod.

News & Events

A Pastoral Letter on Child Refugees from the National Leaders of the United Church of Christ

The National Officers of the United Church of Christ and the Council of Conference Ministers — the leaders of the denomination's regional conferences — share this pastoral letter addressing the tens of thousands of young refugees fleeing Central and Latin America and seeking safety in the United States. In a unified voice, UCC leaders declare their support for these children that are leaving their homelands out of fear. This is a unique moment that tests the church's commitment for justice and peace .

Recognizing that the influx of unaccompanied children fleeing violence in Central America requires a robust humanitarian and advocacy response, UCC leaders call on all settings of the church to "care for the stranger in our midst." The number of unaccompanied children entering the United States has grown to more than 57,000 so far in 2014, up from 27,884 in 2013. These children and families are fleeing extreme poverty,drastic increases in gang-related violence, and their governments' inability or unwillingness to protect them.

Shop and Make a Painless Donation to CCB at the Same Time

Do you shop online?

If the answer's yes, you have an opportunity to send a portion of your purchase price (4 percent or more) back to CCB as a rebate and a donation to our general fund. Here's how it works. Go to the Amazon.com button or the eScrip Online Mall button on the left of this page. Click on the Amazon button and it will take you to the Amazon website. Just shop as you always would. Because you entered the Amazon site from the CCB webpage, the rebate will come back to the church. You don't have to do a thing differently.

For the eScrip Online Mall, click on the button and, when you get the to eScrip website, click on SHOP NOW. It will take you to a page where you can link to Bloomingdale's, Macy's, Best Buy, iTunes, and dozens of other retailers. When you make your purchase, use the credit card that's been registered for eScrip. (And if you haven't registered your cards, email Danielle for help in doing that.)

That's all there is to it. It's truly painless and it's not asking you to do a thing you wouldn't ordinarily do when you shop. Those 4 percents add up, and it's nothing additional out of your wallet.

But if you'd like to send a chocolate gift, remember to go to the websites of our Chocolate Fest vendors. CCB doesn't get a rebate but we do benefit our Chocolate Fest vendors whom we really want to succeed. Thank you!

No Longer Strangers

The Rev. Wendy J. Taylor, former pastor of CCB, has written a book about Puente de la Sur, her ministry to the immigrant men who work the fields on the San Mateo County coast. To order No Longer Strangers from Amazon.com, click on the image below.